2 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
A metallicity sweet spot for disc fragmentation and planet formation
Ethan J. Carter, Dimitris Stamatellos, George Blaylock-Squibbs +2
Fragmentation of gravitationally unstable discs offers an alternate formation mechanism for gas giant planets and brown dwarfs on wide orbits. Metallicity plays a key role in disc…
astro-ph.SR2024
Introducing two improved methods for approximating radiative cooling in hydrodynamical simulations of accretion discs
Alison K. Young, Maggie Celeste, Richard A. Booth +4
The evolution of many astrophysical systems depends strongly on the balance between heating and cooling, in particular star formation in giant molecular clouds and the evolution of…